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Best Base Building games on PC

Games where players construct, expand, and manage a base, ranging from survival shelters to colonies, factories, and military settlements.

  • Construct and expand a home base
  • Gather and manage building resources
  • Upgrade defenses, production, or utilities

Related: Resource Management, Crafting, Survival, Automation

760 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.

Subsistence
First-person open-world survival crafting with seasons and rival hunters
72% positive 14K reviews
The Last Spell
Turn-based tactical RPG about defending a city from nightly hordes
91% positive 14K reviews
PixARK
Open-world voxel survival with dinosaurs, magic, and base building
72% positive 14K reviews
Outpost: Infinity Siege
First-person shooting and tower defense with loot-driven outpost building
65% positive 14K reviews
Dune: Spice Wars
Real-time 4X strategy mixing spice economics, politics, espionage, and war
79% positive 14K reviews
Evil Genius 2: World Domination
Satirical spy-fi strategy game about building and defending an evil lair
69% positive 13K reviews
State of Decay: YOSE
Open-world zombie survival with community management and base building
82% positive 13K reviews
Supreme Commander 2
Large-scale sci-fi RTS with customizable armies and researchable war machines
88% positive 13K reviews
Diplomacy is Not an Option
Medieval base-building RTS against relentless hordes of enemies
86% positive 13K reviews
The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moriaâ„¢
Co-op survival crafting beneath Moria with dwarven base building
81% positive 12K reviews
Kingdom: New Lands
Side-scrolling survival strategy across islands threatened by nightly attacks
85% positive 12K reviews
ASKA
Viking survival colony sim built around managing working villagers
80% positive 12K reviews
Tempest Rising
Base-building RTS about rival factions fighting over mysterious vines
87% positive 12K reviews
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Anniversary Edition (Classic)
Sci-fi real-time strategy with squad combat, cover, and morale
95% positive 12K reviews
Night of the Dead
Open-world zombie survival crafting with nightly tower-defense hordes
77% positive 12K reviews
Dark and Light
Open-world fantasy survival with creature taming and elemental magic
52% positive 12K reviews
DYSMANTLE
Top-down survival RPG about dismantling an island for resources
91% positive 12K reviews
Captain of Industry
Single-player factory simulation with dynamic terrain and complex logistics
90% positive 12K reviews
Stranded: Alien Dawn
Alien-world colony simulation with survival, base building, and defense
84% positive 11K reviews
Pax Dei
Medieval sandbox MMO centered on crafting, building, and clan conflict
57% positive 11K reviews
Space Haven
Spaceship colony sim with tile-by-tile building and crew survival
86% positive 11K reviews
How to Survive 2
Co-op zombie survival action RPG with crafting and camp building
69% positive 11K reviews
The Front
Open-world survival crafting with custom vehicles and trap-filled bases
67% positive 11K reviews
Age of Darkness: Final Stand
Dark fantasy RTS about building defenses against massive hordes
74% positive 11K reviews